Outline (Emergency And Disaster Management)
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Emergency And Disaster Management
Part1
In emergency and disaster management, the resources and responsibilities are established and directed to deal with all the aspects of emergencies. These aspects include readiness or preparedness, reaction or response, moderation or mitigation and retrieval or recovery. Emergencies or disasters happen in all our environmental settings. These can be homes, schools, churches, political gatherings, workplaces, or during travel. The emergencies can be of varied strengths or scale, some may be so bad that lives may be negatively affected like losing loved ones or sustaining very bad injuries. On the other hand, some may be of a small scale that just very mild injuries may be felt. Well irrespective of the strength or extent of the emergency, they should be managed very well. This includes emergencies or disasters that are from natural causes like earthquakes or from human causes like oil spillage and explosions.
We cannot have one approach to disasters, according to Abdalla and Esmail, “disaster management requires a clear understanding of the physical mechanisms and processes underlying a given disaster scenario”. Therefore there are many physical mechanisms as well as many processes which have to be mastered thus applied to any given situation. Every personnel involved with emergency and disaster management, need to be given enough education, exposed to different disaster environments so that they are able to differentiate between the processes involved when in the phase of recovery.
As such, it would be easier or more affordable to identify the areas that have the potential of experiencing a disaster, so that mitigation measures are put in place. Some of the mitigation measures will be setting up surveillance systems, dedicating a standby rescue team, necessary educative displays on what individuals may be required to do in the event that a foreseen disaster happens like in the case of fire.
Part2
Emergency and disaster management
In emergency and disaster management, the resources and responsibilities are established and directed to deal with all the aspects of emergencies. These aspects include readiness or preparedness, reaction or response, moderation or mitigation and retrieval or recovery. Emergencies or disasters happen in all our environmental settings. These can be homes, schools, churches, political gatherings, workplaces, or during travel. The emergencies can be of varied strengths or scale, some may be so bad that lives may be negatively affected like losing loved ones or sustaining very bad injuries. On the other hand, some may be of a small scale that just very mild injuries may be felt. Well irrespective of the strength or extent of the emergency, they should be managed very well. This includes emergencies or disasters that are from natural causes like earthquakes or from human causes like oil spillage and explosions.
We cannot have one approach to disasters, as pointed out, in every given scenario of a disaster there is the need to understand clearly the physical mechanisms as well as the underlying process in order to manage them, (Abdalla & Esmail, 2019). Therefore there are many physical mechanisms as well as many processes which have to be mastered thus applied to any given situation. Every personnel involved with emergency and disaster management, need to be given enough education, exposed to different disaster environments so that they are able to differentiate between the processes involved when in the phase of recovery.
As such, it would be easier or more affordable to identify the areas that have the potential of experiencing a disaster, so that mitigation measures are put in place. Some of the mitigation measures will be setting up surveillance systems, dedicating a standby rescue team, necessary educative displays on what individuals may be required to do in the event that a foreseen disaster happens like in the case of fire.
References
Abdalla, R., & Esmail, M. (2019). WebGIS for disaster management and emergency response.
In Liu, Z., In Ota, K., & ProQuest (Firm). (2018). Smart technologies for emergency response and disaster management.